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Builder · Wanchese, North Carolina

Sunny Briggs

Sunny Briggs started mating on Oregon Inlet charter boats at twelve, captained for Omie Tillett, and built boats in the winters while fishing the summers before opening Briggs Boat Works at 370 Harbor Road, Wanchese, in 1985. Working with Steve French of Applied Concepts, the shop was the first to build on computer-cut jigs, an idea his wife Dee brought from the North Carolina furniture trade. Some seventy hulls later, Briggs retired in 2021 and handed the shop to Ricky Scarborough Jr.

Hulls on record
26
Built between
1982–2014
Names carried
42
Renamed at least once
9

Hulls on recordBy decade, then hull number

  1. 1980s8 hulls

    Reel EasyNo. 81982
  2. C. K. SavageNo. 91983
  3. ConstellationNo. 121984
  4. Laura TNo. 141985
  5. MagicNo. 151985
  6. Long FinNo. 211988
  7. Prime Hooklaunched as Reel Escape · 2 names since 1988No. 221988
  8. Game Changerlaunched as Jayhawk · 2 names since 1989No. 231989

  9. 1990s8 hulls

    Low Bidder Xlaunched as Skipper · 2 names since 1990No. 241990
  10. Sea RakeNo. 341994
  11. Miner DetailNo. 351996
  12. Sunny Girllaunched as Endorfin · 2 names since 1996No. 361996
  13. War Eaglelaunched as Masterpiece · 2 names since 1996No. 371996
  14. Shifting Gearslaunched as Big Easy · 2 names since 1998No. 381998
  15. CarambaNo. 391998
  16. Krakenlaunched as Let's Do It · 6 names since 1999No. 411999

  17. 2000s8 hulls

    Billlaunched as Nemesis · 2 names since 2000No. 402000
  18. De MakoNo. 422001
  19. Smooth OperatorNo. 442003
  20. FireflyNo. 452004
  21. CarambaNo. 462005
  22. Double Blaunched as Bodacious · 5 names since 2007No. 492007
  23. Line SetNo. 502009
  24. Waste KnotNo. 512009

  25. 2010s2 hulls

    CaciqueNo. 522010
  26. CarambaNo. 592014

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